It's that time of year again! THE MITTEN! I do this activity with my students every year and they love it so much! I found Jan Brett's website and I just loooooooove it. I printed, cut, laminated and attached a popsicle stick to the animal masks from "The Mitten" and my class and I are going to retell the story by using the masks and acting out each of the part. I am going to use a white sheet as the mitten and my students will have to crawl in it as we retell.
Then, we have a little creative writing activity where the students have to think of a different animal to crawl into the mitten and tell why. The mitten is made with scrapbook paper and cotton balls. Underneath there is a surprise!!!!
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| I only had my students glue the bottom of the mitten. |
I just made a bunch of mittens from cardstock and the kids used them to trace their mitten.
Clipart and/or fonts copyright DJ Inkers and used with permission: www.djinkers.com
Click HERE for the writing activity. Click HERE for the mask downloads from Jan Brett's website.
20 comments:
Super cute ideas! LOVE!!!!
☏Johanna
First Grade Fanatic!
LOVE it. The scrapbook paper absolutely MAKES this! The kids must love the little "surprise". Too cute!!
This is so cute!! I wish it was winter in Australia so I could, use these great activities! You make it look so easy, but I know how much times goes into making these resources. Thank You!
I'm trying to get to 20 followers on my blog and when I do each of these 20 followers will get a huge sight word bingo and soccer spelling game!
Sally
www.misspeachsclass.blogspot.com
This is a great writing idea. We read mitten stories each year. I'm adding this to my mitten activities. Thank you!
MonaFirst Grade Schoolhouse
Thanks for sharing :) I love the Mitten and Jan Brett's books. I'm going to add this to my file!!
Angie
Rulin' The Roost
I am SO doing this with my kiddos! Love it!
Michelle
Another home run!! I LOVE it!
The Moffatt Girls
Super cute idea! Jan Brett is one of my favorite units! Wanted to let you know I am doing an MLK giveaway on my blog :)
Elizabeth
Oh I love your Mitten activity!! We are going to be reading it next week for sequence of events and retelling! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Becca
First Grade in Foxwell Forest
I love the mitten! So cute!
Thank you for the cute idea! We will do this next week! : )
We do The Mitten every year. This is great. Thank you for sharing!
Teachin' First
This is so cute! Thank you for sharing!
ღDeAnne
First Grade and Fabulous
This is so cute. We are defintely going to do this next week. Thanks for sharing.
Terri
The First Grade Princess
That is such a cute idea!!
Jennifer
Darling Little Learners
I love those masks. I love Jan Brett. We just did The Mitten too! We compared and contrasted it with the Treselt version. Have you used her website videos in class too? She shows you how to draw her animals! My kids were obsessed!
Heidi
This is fabulous! I needed a Mitten writing activity to go along with our art project and here it is. PERFECT!!
Thanks girl!
XOXO Kerri B
Teacher Bits and Bobs
Thanks! Love this idea!
It is really nice sharing i like the way you shared such nice post thanks for all the effort.
Luxury Villas Italy
I love Jan Brett! I try to get all her books soon a they are out. The first book I bought of hers was "The Mitten". I love that story.
I found you on pinterest just now regarding your tip with the glue bottles.
Nice blog, you have a bunch of interesting post I want to read, so I bookmarked you. I also live in Utah.
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